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Originally Posted by mhron
The fare varies according to the time of year. In winter it is sometimes $500 one way. But you want to travel in summer, the most expensive time of year for economy and World Traveller Plus. You will not get WT+ fares for much less than $1600. Then you have to spend the miles on top of this to get the Club World seat.
IN fact you can get WT+ on promotion fares from as little as $591 RETURN, even for peak Christmas season, as was evidenced by the IAD promotion earlier this year.
Sorry lost my net connection.
Here is an upgradeable fare for just over $1400, Club World Flat beds across the Atlantic, full lounge access at every port and Club Europe for the short haul flights:
To add a flight to IST (Istanbul) you will first need to check the cheapest flights dates across the atlantic as I have in my previous post.
Using those flights (and they do go up hugely for days either side of those dates due to it being peak season) you can get a WT+ fare to IST for about $1400 - be warned for other dates/flights it could go as high as $2700 return:
Total price $ 1,419.19 (US Dollars)
Outbound BA0178 John F Kennedy (New York),USA LHR (London),United Kingdom World Traveller Plus Wed 13 July 2005 ,09:15 Wed 13 July 2005 21:00
Outbound BA0676 Heathrow (London),United Kingdom Istanbul,Turkey Traveller Thu 14 July 2005 ,09:50 Thu 14 July 2005 , 15:40
Inbound BA0675 Istanbul,Turkey Heathrow (London),United Kingdom Traveller Wed 20 July 2005 ,08:55 Wed 20 July 2005 , 11:00
Inbound BA0183 LHR (London),United Kingdom John F Kennedy (New York),USA World Traveller Plus Wed 20 July 2005 ,20:00 Wed 20 July 2005 , 22:30
Fare per person plus taxes, fees, charges and surcharges* per person Total
1 Adult $ 1,208.00 $ 211.19 $ 1,419.19
This can be upgraded to Club World and Club Europe for a little more than 25,000 BA Miles required to London round trip - 32,500 are required in this instance.
You will earn about 10,000 of these BA miles back during your flights as you earn 125% of miles flown for the WT+ transatlantic sector to your BAEC account (you cannot earn them to your AA account, long story). You can earn nearly all of them back if you take out a BAEC visa and pay for the flight that way (15,000 signing bonus and double miles per $ spent on BA, about 3,000 for this transaction). So 10,000 flown miles, 18,000 from the CC, 28,000 miles earned, so you are only down 4,500 BA miles net in all.
I suggest you ask to be allocated upstairs on the 747 for a more exclusive feel; you can try and snag the much sought after 62k (which is a window seat with no need to climb over anyone else) at On Line Check In, exactly 24 hours prior to departure.
This is admittedly quite a bit more than the $800 I initially quoted, but remember you are flying peak season and at (relatively) short notice.